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title: After securing such supplies as he needed, in February, 1778, he sai… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: After securing such supplies as he needed, in February, 1778, he sailed for North America. Who acts: Captain. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 102

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After securing such supplies as he needed, in February, 1778, he sailed for North America.

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**Who acts:** Captain · **What happens:** secure, need, sail · **To what, where:** such supplies

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Captain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:12:102
# text = After securing such supplies as he needed, in February, 1778, he sailed for North America.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	securing	secure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
3	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	supplies	supplies	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	obj	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	1778	1778	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **secure** | gerund | Captain *not said here* | such supplies |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition supplies=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | past | Captain |  |  |  | february |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **sail** | past | Captain |  |  |  |  | for North America | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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